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Collections: Reconstructing the Roman Pectoral This week we’re going to look a specific piece of early Roman military equipment, the humble bronze...
3rd Apr 2026
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Collections: Reconstructing the Roman Pectoral

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3rd Apr 2026
This week we’re going to look a specific piece of early Roman military equipment, the humble bronze pectoral, which it turns out is surprisingly tricky for us to confidently reconstruct, in part because the period of its use that most interests us (the run from c. 264 to c. 146...
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Pennsylvania Dutch Shoofly Pie (A diary in honor of my native state of Pennsylvania, which may or may not decide the outcome of one...
5th Nov 2024
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Pennsylvania Dutch Shoofly Pie

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5th Nov 2024
(A diary in honor of my native state of Pennsylvania, which may or may not decide the outcome of one of the most consequential US elections in modern history.) The story of a Pennsylvania Dutch classic dessert is as colorful as its unusual name… In 1517, Martin Luther began a...
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Why is the Serbia-Kosovo situation globally serious? I learned about the newest dispute between Serbia and Kosovo in a New York café when I overheard a...
30th Sep 2023
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Why is the Serbia-Kosovo situation globally serious?

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30th Sep 2023
I learned about the newest dispute between Serbia and Kosovo in a New York café when I overheard a very animated conversation between a lady who seemed to blame Serbia for World War I (and perhaps World War III?) and the well-dressed maitre d’ who was so excited that he kept on...
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Ukraine: A Further Guide for the Perplexed. They didn't know. But they know now.
1st May 2024
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Ukraine: A Further Guide for the Perplexed.

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1st May 2024
They didn't know. But they know now.
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On the Making of the Modern State Classical Wisdom Litterae: Government
2nd Jul 2025
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On the Making of the Modern State

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2nd Jul 2025
Classical Wisdom Litterae: Government
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Origins of the Odyssey Rethinking the Dark Age and the Alphabet
a week ago
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Origins of the Odyssey

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a week ago
Rethinking the Dark Age and the Alphabet
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Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part I: SPQR This is the first of a planned five-part series looking at the structure of the Roman Republic as...
21st Jul 2023
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Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part I: SPQR

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21st Jul 2023
This is the first of a planned five-part series looking at the structure of the Roman Republic as another example of civic governance structures in antiquity, to match our series on the Greek polis. As with that series, we’re going to start by defining our community and its...
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Gap Week: December 1, 2023 No blog post this week, folks, as I am both fiercely busy and – by the time this goes up – out of...
1st Dec 2023
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Gap Week: December 1, 2023

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1st Dec 2023
No blog post this week, folks, as I am both fiercely busy and – by the time this goes up – out of town. We’ll be back to our regular schedule next week, with the next big topic I want to tackle being what a shield wall is and how it actually functions on a … Continue reading Gap...
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It Gets Worse. This time, there will be consequences.
6th Aug 2025
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It Gets Worse.

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6th Aug 2025
This time, there will be consequences.
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Tirzah Garwood – A Very British Vision of Marriage, Lovers And Work Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when...
12th Nov 2023
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Tirzah Garwood – A Very British Vision of Marriage, Lovers And Work

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12th Nov 2023
Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when female artists struggled for recognition, writes Graham Bennison. Having married Eric Ravilious in 1930 she followed the conventions of the time, giving up her wood engraving to...
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Masks, Smoke, and Mirrors: The untold story of EgyptAir flight 804
22nd Dec 2024
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Masks, Smoke, and Mirrors: The untold story of EgyptAir flight 804

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22nd Dec 2024
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The Chernobyl Podcast and the Value of Internet Deep Dives I’ve just finished watching the HBO-Sky miniseries, Chernobyl. It was by far the best new tv series...
12th Jun 2019
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The Chernobyl Podcast and the Value of Internet Deep Dives

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12th Jun 2019
I’ve just finished watching the HBO-Sky miniseries, Chernobyl. It was by far the best new tv series I’ve seen all year — a horrifying true story told in a masterful way by its writer, director, and actors. About midway through binging the five episodes, I discovered there was a...
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To Struggle Is to Remember : January 18: Day of the Forest Defender Three years have passed since Georgia State Patrolmen Jerry Parrish, Bryland Myers, Jonathan...
2nd Jan 2026
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To Struggle Is to Remember : January 18: Day of the Forest Defender

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2nd Jan 2026
Three years have passed since Georgia State Patrolmen Jerry Parrish, Bryland Myers, Jonathan Salcedo, Ronaldo Kegel, Royce Zah, and Mark Jonathan Lamb entered the Weelaunee Forest in southeast Atlanta with their guns drawn. They shot and killed Manuel Teran, known to fellow...
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Precolonial India was not rich The historical poverty of the Indian masses, origins of the great divergence, and why East Asian...
5th Oct 2025
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Precolonial India was not rich

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5th Oct 2025
The historical poverty of the Indian masses, origins of the great divergence, and why East Asian growth miracle but not South Asian
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goji no chaimu After a long 21-day passage, seeing the shape of the island of Chichijima in the distance was...
1st Mar 2019
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goji no chaimu

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1st Mar 2019
After a long 21-day passage, seeing the shape of the island of Chichijima in the distance was unreal; this was our prize, our first step onto Japanese soil. We used to make many trips to Japan by plane, but getting there by our own efforts — by sailboat — is a lot slower and...
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It all started in 1948 Featuring my recent appearance on Louise Perry's podcast
1st Jun 2026
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It all started in 1948

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1st Jun 2026
Featuring my recent appearance on Louise Perry's podcast
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Summary of changes for February 2026 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
1st Mar 2026
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Summary of changes for February 2026

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1st Mar 2026
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of February. Wiki, updated knots with a figure-eight follow-through knot, also, Pino has a new headsail! Pavol, created a volume control tool. Adelie, made it so images are drawn...
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The Golden Age of Microblogging, With Soup.io and Tumblr Microblogging was a trend that emerged in the second half of the 2000s, after long-form weblogs had...
22nd Mar 2023
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The Golden Age of Microblogging, With Soup.io and Tumblr

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22nd Mar 2023
Microblogging was a trend that emerged in the second half of the 2000s, after long-form weblogs had become established in the culture. Microblogging is basically just short-form blogging and, as I’ll lay out in this post, its heyday was in the 2007-11 period. But microblogging is...
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Why one Chinese county spent 76 years planting trees The story of Youyu offers a window into what the CPC calls a "correct view on governance...
3rd Jul 2026
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Why one Chinese county spent 76 years planting trees

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3rd Jul 2026
The story of Youyu offers a window into what the CPC calls a "correct view on governance performance."
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Why drug history? Drugs and spices play an outsized role in world history — but it's often a hidden one
1st Feb 2024
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Why drug history?

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1st Feb 2024
Drugs and spices play an outsized role in world history — but it's often a hidden one
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The ReadWriteWeb 2WAY Summit NYC, 2011 Jason Calacanis and Abraham Hyatt at the 2WAY Summit; photo by Shashi Bellamkonda. We couldn’t have...
3rd Dec 2024
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The ReadWriteWeb 2WAY Summit NYC, 2011

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3rd Dec 2024
Jason Calacanis and Abraham Hyatt at the 2WAY Summit; photo by Shashi Bellamkonda. We couldn’t have asked for a better venue. The Roone Arledge Auditorium at Columbia University had a full stage, sprung wooden floors, round tables decorated in elegant white cloth, and a huge...
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Fell in Love with Fire : A Documentary about the 2019 Uprising in Chile Five years in the making, this hour-long film documents the uprising that swept Chile from October...
21st Oct 2024
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Fell in Love with Fire : A Documentary about the 2019 Uprising in Chile

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21st Oct 2024
Five years in the making, this hour-long film documents the uprising that swept Chile from October 2019 to March 2020, showing how everyday people sustained six months of rebellion by creating extensive networks of self-determination and mutual aid. This is an inspiring portrayal...
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5 Unexpected Philosophers Who Influenced St. Thomas Aquinas Born ca. 1225 AD, Thomas Aquinas is revered in some circles as highly as the ancient Greek and later...
1st Apr 2026
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5 Unexpected Philosophers Who Influenced St. Thomas Aquinas

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1st Apr 2026
Born ca. 1225 AD, Thomas Aquinas is revered in some circles as highly as the ancient Greek and later Enlightenment-era thinkers. While the medieval philosopher’s works are still studied in many universities, ethicists and academics try to further interpret Thomistic thought,...
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Historical Accounts of African Cannibalism A short chronology of references to cannibalism in Africa
13th Feb 2024
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Historical Accounts of African Cannibalism

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13th Feb 2024
A short chronology of references to cannibalism in Africa
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The Newer World Order. But can they get their heads round it?
7th Feb 2024
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The Newer World Order.

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7th Feb 2024
But can they get their heads round it?
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Summary of changes for February Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
28th Feb 2022
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Summary of changes for February

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28th Feb 2022
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of February. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes Adelie, released a program to create slideshows. GrimGrains,...
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No, the war on Iran is not about China. Europe should be much more worried. The big talking point in the West these days to justify the illegal war of aggression against Iran...
11th Mar 2026
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No, the war on Iran is not about China. Europe should be much more worried.

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11th Mar 2026
The big talking point in the West these days to justify the illegal war of aggression against Iran is to say that it is, in fact, all about China - part of a strategy to encircle China energetically and deprive them of a geopolitical partner.
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The abolition of paper and the pompous rule of the present China is considered to have been the first country (civilization) to have created the modern version...
2nd Jan 2024
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The abolition of paper and the pompous rule of the present

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2nd Jan 2024
China is considered to have been the first country (civilization) to have created the modern version of paper. Paper is listed as one among the four big Chinese inventions (the other three are compass, gun powder and printing). Perhaps it will be the first country to desinvent...
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The Ocarina The Ocarina, also sometimes called the “sweet potato flute”, is an ancient instrument that was...
22nd Oct 2024
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The Ocarina

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22nd Oct 2024
The Ocarina, also sometimes called the “sweet potato flute”, is an ancient instrument that was developed in Meso-America, and was resurrected in 19th century Europe. When we hear the word “flute”, most of us think of a long thin wooden or metal tube with holes along its length...
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Six Days on Luna One (1965) Part 2 To continue with this fantastic space art book from 1965. Above is the 1963 Hungarian cover. I have...
5th Sep 2026
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Six Days on Luna One (1965) Part 2

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5th Sep 2026
To continue with this fantastic space art book from 1965. Above is the 1963 Hungarian cover. I have not been able to find the book yet. There is so much here I run out of comments. This is a translation into Russian of a 1963 Czech book. The 1963 book's title was:  Šest dnů na...
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The third framing Can an international economic system exist in the world of nationalisms?
9th Sep 2024
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The third framing

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9th Sep 2024
Can an international economic system exist in the world of nationalisms?
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What the Internet Was Like in 2002 KaZaA, one of many P2P file sharing services in 2002. In June 2002, Pew Research Center released a...
2nd Dec 2025
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What the Internet Was Like in 2002

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2nd Dec 2025
KaZaA, one of many P2P file sharing services in 2002. In June 2002, Pew Research Center released a report on broadband uptake. It stated that 21% of all Internet users in America — 24 million adults — now had broadband in the home, up from just 6% two years ago. Of course,...
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My Weekly Reader 1958-1959 March 3, 1958   Happy New Year's! I picked up a set of My Weekly Reader so I thought I would share...
1st Jan 2026
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My Weekly Reader 1958-1959

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1st Jan 2026
March 3, 1958   Happy New Year's! I picked up a set of My Weekly Reader so I thought I would share some with you as I have a chance to scan them. Some of these are from My Weekly Reader Picture Reader. This was the version for 1st graders. The next is from the My Weekly reader...
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Crowd Control: Appeasement, Vanguardism, and the General Strike : An Analysis from the Twin Cities In the following analysis, participants in the resistance to Immigration and Customs Enforcement...
1st Feb 2026
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Crowd Control: Appeasement, Vanguardism, and the General Strike : An Analysis from the Twin Cities

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1st Feb 2026
In the following analysis, participants in the resistance to Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations in the Twin Cities reflect on the lessons of the strikes of January 23 and January 30, looking for ways to expand and strengthen the movement. On January 23, 2026, a...
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Historic links between the Maghreb and West Africa: On the Sanusiyya and anti-colonialism. The modern separation of Africa into a “Mediterranean” North and a “Sub-Saharan” South had little...
22nd Jun 2025
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Historic links between the Maghreb and West Africa: On the Sanusiyya and anti-colonialism.

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22nd Jun 2025
The modern separation of Africa into a “Mediterranean” North and a “Sub-Saharan” South had little basis in the historical geographies and political relationships of the pre-colonial period.
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2024: Out of the Frying Pan, into the Fire : The Year in Review It’s time to take stock of the year have just lived through and get oriented for the year ahead....
1st Jan 2025
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2024: Out of the Frying Pan, into the Fire : The Year in Review

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1st Jan 2025
It’s time to take stock of the year have just lived through and get oriented for the year ahead. Here, we review the events of 2024 and our own contributions to the fight for a better world. A year that began amid genocide in Palestine and war in Ukraine and Sudan is concluding...
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WW1’s Togoland Campaign Some of the first shots in World War One were fired not in France but in Africa.. The Khra River...
1st Sep 2026
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WW1’s Togoland Campaign

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1st Sep 2026
Some of the first shots in World War One were fired not in France but in Africa.. The Khra River Bridge in Togoland, photo from Wiki Commons. In the later half of the 19th century, Germany and Great Britain became global rivals. The British already had an empire which stretched...
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ReadWriteWeb Mistaken for Facebook Login — Hilarity Ensues As internet culture continued to go mainstream over 2010, sometimes we at ReadWriteWeb got caught in...
4th Sep 2024
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ReadWriteWeb Mistaken for Facebook Login — Hilarity Ensues

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4th Sep 2024
As internet culture continued to go mainstream over 2010, sometimes we at ReadWriteWeb got caught in the crosshairs. In February, our website was hilariously mistaken for the Facebook login page by thousands of people. We’d published a post entitled “Facebook Wants to Be Your One...
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Fireside Friday, August 4, 2023 Hey all, Fireside this week, as I look to take a bit of time to focus on getting some writing done...
4th Aug 2023
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Fireside Friday, August 4, 2023

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4th Aug 2023
Hey all, Fireside this week, as I look to take a bit of time to focus on getting some writing done and some syllabi written before the semester begins in earnest later this week. Also before we dive in I want to note that it appears that Patreon has been having some trouble...
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Melt the ICE: The Fight Continues : Twin Cities Protesters Blockade ICE Inside the Federal Building On March 1, 2026, at the conclusion of a week of action against the Immigration and Customs...
5th Mar 2026
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Melt the ICE: The Fight Continues : Twin Cities Protesters Blockade ICE Inside the Federal Building

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5th Mar 2026
On March 1, 2026, at the conclusion of a week of action against the Immigration and Customs Enforcement occupation of the Twin Cities, protesters converged on the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building in Fort Snelling, Minnesota. At least four hundred people marched on the...
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1997: JavaScript Grows Up, Developers Push Boundaries By the start of 1997, JavaScript had become a regular topic for tech reference websites and books....
4th May 2021
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1997: JavaScript Grows Up, Developers Push Boundaries

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4th May 2021
By the start of 1997, JavaScript had become a regular topic for tech reference websites and books. Nick Heinle was perhaps the epitome of this, as he began 1997 with a column on WebReference.com called JavaScript Tip of the Week, released an O’Reilly book in August 1997 entitled...
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Sony 80 Is Almost Here On June 23rd, the next ObsoleteSony book launches on Kickstarter.
16th Jun 2026
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Sony 80 Is Almost Here

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16th Jun 2026
On June 23rd, the next ObsoleteSony book launches on Kickstarter.
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Jolted and Jumbled: Riding in a Sedan Chair in the 18th Century If there is one form of transport that perhaps typifies the 18th century more than any other, it is...
19th Aug 2025
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Jolted and Jumbled: Riding in a Sedan Chair in the 18th Century

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19th Aug 2025
If there is one form of transport that perhaps typifies the 18th century more than any other, it is a sedan chair.  Recently I have been doing some work on stage coaches, and the experience of what it was actually like to travel in one. This is already turning up some interesting...
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1997: The Year of DHTML As we saw in the previous post, 1997 was a year of growth for JavaScript. However, it was also a...
2nd Jun 2021
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1997: The Year of DHTML

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2nd Jun 2021
As we saw in the previous post, 1997 was a year of growth for JavaScript. However, it was also a year in which its limitations were recognized and a new term was coined that both embraced and extended JavaScript. DHTML, or Dynamic HTML, was essentially a combination of HTML,...
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An Apology, An Apologia And an Actual Example. All I can manage this week, sorry.
5th Nov 2025
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An Apology, An Apologia And an Actual Example.

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5th Nov 2025
All I can manage this week, sorry.
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Victorian Swappers! Adverts for exchange in the 19th century. Victorians were inveterate 'swappers' (NB: this might not be what you think!). Newspapers and...
1st Nov 2024
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Victorian Swappers! Adverts for exchange in the 19th century.

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1st Nov 2024
Victorians were inveterate 'swappers' (NB: this might not be what you think!). Newspapers and journals were full of ads for objects sought and to be exchanged. These offer a fascinating insight into what was considered desirable, the value of objects, and the processes of...
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We Must Change How We Source Morality Consider three sources of opinions or habits:
3rd Jun 2026
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We Must Change How We Source Morality

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3rd Jun 2026
Consider three sources of opinions or habits:
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What If Museums Were Full of Copies? Victorians once tried to make it happen
1st Jul 2026
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What If Museums Were Full of Copies?

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1st Jul 2026
Victorians once tried to make it happen
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Cultural revolution in the land of Kafka and Borges On Peter Kropotkin's Memoirs
2nd Oct 2024
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Cultural revolution in the land of Kafka and Borges

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2nd Oct 2024
On Peter Kropotkin's Memoirs
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The African diaspora in Portuguese India: 1500-1800. Sailors, Merchants and Priests.
5th Nov 2023
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The African diaspora in Portuguese India: 1500-1800.

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5th Nov 2023
Sailors, Merchants and Priests.
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Best BigCo of 2008: Apple This post as it looked in 2008. Every year we do a review of the top Internet companies, to...
18th Dec 2008
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Best BigCo of 2008: Apple

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18th Dec 2008
This post as it looked in 2008. Every year we do a review of the top Internet companies, to identify the ones we think had the biggest impact. Today we're announcing the Best BigCo of 2008 and next week we'll announce Best LittleCo and Most Promising Company — all selected by...
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How 1983 Changed the Shape of the Walkman The year Sony began breaking the Walkman into smaller, stranger, and more personal forms.
7th Apr 2026
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How 1983 Changed the Shape of the Walkman

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7th Apr 2026
The year Sony began breaking the Walkman into smaller, stranger, and more personal forms.
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The 5 Most Significant Non-Abrahamic World Religions and Philosophies The term “Abrahamic Religion” refers to the shared figure of Abraham, patriarch of the major...
1st Nov 2025
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The 5 Most Significant Non-Abrahamic World Religions and Philosophies

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1st Nov 2025
The term “Abrahamic Religion” refers to the shared figure of Abraham, patriarch of the major monotheistic religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Abraham’s presence in the holy texts of monotheism signifies shared ancestry and a degree of commonality. Many contemporary...
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That's The Truth? In politics, well, it depends.
4th Oct 2023
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That's The Truth?

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4th Oct 2023
In politics, well, it depends.
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where is the turtle farm Pino spent a long time in Savusavu, but by then, we were growing tired of this scenery, not of the...
20th Aug 2018
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where is the turtle farm

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20th Aug 2018
Pino spent a long time in Savusavu, but by then, we were growing tired of this scenery, not of the market, or of the company to be found here, but just of having that same view every morning. We love this city, but when it's time to go, it's time to go! We left our mooring at...
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Intellectual narcissism or political relevance Did imperialism just reappear yesterday?
1st Feb 2026
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Intellectual narcissism or political relevance

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1st Feb 2026
Did imperialism just reappear yesterday?
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The ancient city of Meroe: the capital of Kush (ca. 950 BC-350 CE) Journal of African cities: chapter 15
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The ancient city of Meroe: the capital of Kush (ca. 950 BC-350 CE)

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Journal of African cities: chapter 15
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Comes the Hiatus, 2024! Dear Readers! As I’ve noted during the summer, I was planning on a one to two month hiatus towards...
7th Sep 2024
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Comes the Hiatus, 2024!

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7th Sep 2024
Dear Readers! As I’ve noted during the summer, I was planning on a one to two month hiatus towards the end of this year in order to allow me to focus on finalizing the manuscript of my book project, a study of the cost of fielding armies in the third and second centuries BC. That...
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Summary of changes for March 2023 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
31st Mar 2023
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Summary of changes for March 2023

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31st Mar 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of March. Summary Of Changes Donsol, added 100r logo to splash screen on the rom. 100r.ca, added a new page: diy carbonation system. Updated Saving fuel, Engine rebuild and...
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part V: Epilogue This is the fifth part of our four(ish) five part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb, IVc) look...
3rd May 2024
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part V: Epilogue

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3rd May 2024
This is the fifth part of our four(ish) five part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb, IVc) look at how the Roman legions were able to overcome the Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the third and second centuries BC. We have covered the decisive battles in the story, although...
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Jonathan Chait [ Content warning: angry, contemptuous ranting that accomplishes nothing. ] I didn't really know who...
1st Dec 2024
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Jonathan Chait

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[ Content warning: angry, contemptuous ranting that accomplishes nothing. ] I didn't really know who Jonathan Chait was until last week when I unfortunately read this essay of his (from February 2016) on “Why Liberals Should Support a Trump Republican Nomination”. I've said a lot...
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Summary of changes for June 2026 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
1st Jul 2026
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Summary of changes for June 2026

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1st Jul 2026
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of June. Wiki, we had a few things fail this month, see: solar cooking experiment, and ipad media station. Also, the pressure sprayer that we use as an outdoor shower and to rinse dishes...
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Referenda ad Senatum: November 1, 2024: Ancient Weapons, Lost Works and Roman Spooky-Stuff! Welcome back! At last, the hiatus has ended and we are back to regular weekly posts. As we’ve done a...
1st Nov 2024
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Referenda ad Senatum: November 1, 2024: Ancient Weapons, Lost Works and Roman Spooky-Stuff!

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1st Nov 2024
Welcome back! At last, the hiatus has ended and we are back to regular weekly posts. As we’ve done a few times before, this week I am breaking the hiatus by taking a chance to answer a few shorter questions posed by my patrons over at Patreon who are the Patres et Matres...
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The Assimilation Myth: America Persistence and the Not-So Melting Pot
9th Apr 2025
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The Assimilation Myth: America

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9th Apr 2025
Persistence and the Not-So Melting Pot
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The Tsarist Mindset On the 'anti-Semitism national security emergency'
1st May 2026
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The Tsarist Mindset

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1st May 2026
On the 'anti-Semitism national security emergency'
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Books To Help Us Understand The World? Well, a few, anyway. And a bit.
1st Nov 2023
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Books To Help Us Understand The World?

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1st Nov 2023
Well, a few, anyway. And a bit.
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The city states of the Yoruba: a history of pre-colonial West African urbanism (1000-1900 CE) At the close of the 19th century, the Yorùbá region of South-west Nigeria was one of the most...
7th Sep 2025
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The city states of the Yoruba: a history of pre-colonial West African urbanism (1000-1900 CE)

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At the close of the 19th century, the Yorùbá region of South-west Nigeria was one of the most urbanized places in Africa.
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Merry Mouse and His Trip to the Moon (1953) My next 4 posts are celebrating children's illustrated fiction about going to the Moon. Even though...
1st Aug 2025
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Merry Mouse and His Trip to the Moon (1953)

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1st Aug 2025
My next 4 posts are celebrating children's illustrated fiction about going to the Moon. Even though I have been collecting these children's book for over 30 years it still is very exciting to find one that you never knew existed. Jack Coggins was an amazing space artist in the...
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When Leisure Suits Ruled: A Look at the Men’s Fashion Phenomenon of the 1970s The leisure suit was impossible to miss in the 1970s. Worn in offices, nightclubs, and everywhere in...
6th Jan 2026
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When Leisure Suits Ruled: A Look at the Men’s Fashion Phenomenon of the 1970s

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6th Jan 2026
The leisure suit was impossible to miss in the 1970s. Worn in offices, nightclubs, and everywhere in between, it became a defining look of the decade and a clear break from the stiff formality that had dominated men’s fashion for generations. Comfortable, affordable, and...
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FREE Obsolete Sony book for paid subscribers A DRM-free digital copy of Sony Year by Year, and a thank-you for year one.
3rd May 2026
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FREE Obsolete Sony book for paid subscribers

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3rd May 2026
A DRM-free digital copy of Sony Year by Year, and a thank-you for year one.
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Fiction is truer than fact Willing suspension of disbelief is not a good basis for lawmaking
2nd Apr 2025
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Fiction is truer than fact

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2nd Apr 2025
Willing suspension of disbelief is not a good basis for lawmaking
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Quality non-fiction books are the antithesis of AI slop ...so I vibe-coded a tool for finding more of them
22nd Jul 2026
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Quality non-fiction books are the antithesis of AI slop

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22nd Jul 2026
...so I vibe-coded a tool for finding more of them
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In Memoriam: Dame Stephanie Shirley, 1933–2025 CHM is saddened to share the passing of 2018 CHM Fellow Dame Stephanie Shirley, who was a pioneer in...
18th Aug 2025
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In Memoriam: Dame Stephanie Shirley, 1933–2025

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18th Aug 2025
CHM is saddened to share the passing of 2018 CHM Fellow Dame Stephanie Shirley, who was a pioneer in embracing remote, flexible work for the thriving software company she founded in the 1960s. The post In Memoriam: Dame Stephanie Shirley, 1933–2025 appeared first on CHM.
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Rare 1960s Photos Offer a Fascinating Look at Swimsuit Fashion of the Era Fashion has a way of reflecting the world around it, and in the 1960s, the world was moving fast....
3rd Jun 2026
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Rare 1960s Photos Offer a Fascinating Look at Swimsuit Fashion of the Era

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3rd Jun 2026
Fashion has a way of reflecting the world around it, and in the 1960s, the world was moving fast. The postwar economic boom had put more disposable income in more pockets than any previous generation had known. Vacation culture was expanding, domestic air travel was becoming...
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REM, Nirvana and More From ‘America’s Poster Champion’ Mike King Portland-based artist Mike King has been creating gig posters for bands since the mid 1970s. What...
1st Oct 2025
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REM, Nirvana and More From ‘America’s Poster Champion’ Mike King

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1st Oct 2025
Portland-based artist Mike King has been creating gig posters for bands since the mid 1970s. What began as a means of promoting his own bands’ shows turned into a prolific career. He gets paid now, but to begin he worked “in exchange for tickets to the shows, and for beers”. King...
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A Shameless Plug: My “human evolution” book thought some folks here may be interested in this … I just finished up a book on human evolution,...
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A Shameless Plug: My “human evolution” book

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thought some folks here may be interested in this … I just finished up a book on human evolution, which covers thirty-some hominin species from Sahelanthropus to sapiens. It covers what we know about each of them, what we don’t know, and what the experts are arguing over (and...
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From Dusk Til Dawn: 29 Found Photos Taken In Changing Light We grow accustomed to the Dark — When Light is put away — As when the Neighbor holds the Lamp To...
1st Jul 2025
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From Dusk Til Dawn: 29 Found Photos Taken In Changing Light

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1st Jul 2025
We grow accustomed to the Dark — When Light is put away — As when the Neighbor holds the Lamp To witness her Good bye — Emily Dickinson  They say that the glow of the sky you see at night isn’t starlight but leftover light from the Big Bang. Light is ancient and magical. Away …...
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Collections: Coinage and the Tyranny of Fantasy ‘Gold’ This week on the blog I want to take a brief detour into discussing historical coinage, particularly...
3rd Jan 2025
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Collections: Coinage and the Tyranny of Fantasy ‘Gold’

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3rd Jan 2025
This week on the blog I want to take a brief detour into discussing historical coinage, particularly in the context of modern fantasy and roleplaying settings. In particular, the notions I want to tackle are first how did ancient currency systems work in terms of value (what...
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If Punching Up is OK, So Is Punching Down Thinking that our world monoculture seems to be drifting into maladaption, I’ve wondered how to get...
2nd Nov 2025
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If Punching Up is OK, So Is Punching Down

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2nd Nov 2025
Thinking that our world monoculture seems to be drifting into maladaption, I’ve wondered how to get folks to care more about making their culture adaptive.
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News Just In: Dr W Joins TikTok – @dralun7 Yes, it’s true – I’ve finally joined the 21st century and decided to try something new. I am still...
12th Dec 2024
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News Just In: Dr W Joins TikTok – @dralun7

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12th Dec 2024
Yes, it’s true – I’ve finally joined the 21st century and decided to try something new. I am still only setting things up, so please be patient with the extremely cheesy and clunky vids as I try to work out what I’m doing! I’ve only got a couple of videos up at the moment too, …...
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A brief history of Gold in Africa and the emporium of Sofala. It was copper, not Gold, that was considered the most important metal in most African societies,...
1st Sep 2024
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A brief history of Gold in Africa and the emporium of Sofala.

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1st Sep 2024
It was copper, not Gold, that was considered the most important metal in most African societies, according to an authoritative study by Eugenia Herbert.
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‘Chernobyl Children’ by Melanie Arndt review ‘Chernobyl Children’ by Melanie Arndt review JamesHoare Mon, 11/03/2025 - 08:14
3rd Nov 2025
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‘Chernobyl Children’ by Melanie Arndt review

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‘Chernobyl Children’ by Melanie Arndt review JamesHoare Mon, 11/03/2025 - 08:14
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Summary of changes for January 2026 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
31st Jan 2026
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Summary of changes for January 2026

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31st Jan 2026
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of January. Uxn, we released a new SDL2 emulator called uxn2 to replace the ol' uxnemu! Wiki, updated moisture prevention underliner, chainplates(with new photos and measurements), and...
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A Narrow Gate The long history of the Khyber Pass, from the archives
2nd Aug 2026
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A Narrow Gate

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The long history of the Khyber Pass, from the archives
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Florida’s Barker Gang Shootout In January 1935, gangster “Ma” Barker and her son Fred were killed by the FBI in a multi-hour...
6th May 2025
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Florida’s Barker Gang Shootout

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6th May 2025
In January 1935, gangster “Ma” Barker and her son Fred were killed by the FBI in a multi-hour shootout in the little town of Ocklawaha FL. Arizona “Arrie” Clark was born in the rural town of Ash Grove MO in October 1873, where she played the fiddle and sang in the local church...
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Millions of Cats: Wanda Gag’s Beautifully Illustrated Children’s Book “I aim to make the illustrations for children’s books as much a work of art as anything I would send...
1st Jan 2024
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Millions of Cats: Wanda Gag’s Beautifully Illustrated Children’s Book

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1st Jan 2024
“I aim to make the illustrations for children’s books as much a work of art as anything I would send to an art exhibition. I strive to make them completely accurate in relation to the text. I try to make them warmly human, imaginative, or humourous — not coldly decorative — and...
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Barbers and (the lack of!) Polite Advertising Over the past few years, I have spent much time looking at ‘polite’ advertising in the 18th century....
1st Apr 2021
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Barbers and (the lack of!) Polite Advertising

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1st Apr 2021
Over the past few years, I have spent much time looking at ‘polite’ advertising in the 18th century. During this period, a whole range of retailers advertised their goods and services to appeal to ladies and gentlemen of taste. Without discussing anything so base as price or...
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Paradise Lost: How Moreover Won & Lost the Real-Time Web The late 1990s was the middle of the Dot Com boom. Looking back, we tend to associate this period of...
17th Mar 2015
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Paradise Lost: How Moreover Won & Lost the Real-Time Web

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17th Mar 2015
The late 1990s was the middle of the Dot Com boom. Looking back, we tend to associate this period of intense growth with e-commerce startups. During 1998, eBay went public, Paypal was founded, Amazon.com was spending big to “expand its reach” and Pets.com launched. Also started...
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The Missile Will Always Get Through. But who is prepared to admit it?
4th Dec 2024
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The Missile Will Always Get Through.

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4th Dec 2024
But who is prepared to admit it?
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What is happening to writing? "Cognitive debt," Claude Code, and the negative space around AI
18th Feb 2026
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What is happening to writing?

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"Cognitive debt," Claude Code, and the negative space around AI
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How Not to Run an Airline: The 2024 Saurya Airlines CRJ-200 crash
1st Aug 2025
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How Not to Run an Airline: The 2024 Saurya Airlines CRJ-200 crash

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Medicine on the Move: Early Modern Travel and Remedies As my new project on the history of travel, health risk and preparation begins to get underway, one...
8th Sep 2023
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Medicine on the Move: Early Modern Travel and Remedies

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8th Sep 2023
As my new project on the history of travel, health risk and preparation begins to get underway, one of the things that I am thinking about is the place of travel within early modern medical remedy culture. What kinds of conditions could befall travellers? What did early modern...
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Swapping Web 2.0 Summit for PARC; and RWW Planning for 2011 Me posing next to the Xerox ParcPad from 1992, an ancestor of the iPad (which was released in 2010);...
6th Nov 2024
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Swapping Web 2.0 Summit for PARC; and RWW Planning for 2011

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6th Nov 2024
Me posing next to the Xerox ParcPad from 1992, an ancestor of the iPad (which was released in 2010); photo on the right is from a group dinner in San Francisco, October 2010. In July, as I was trying to make progress on a number of troublesome fronts — including filling in...
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Police Mugshots of Black Trans Women Arrested for Cross-Dressing or Female Impersonation in 1970s... These police mugshots bear witness to a different time, when black trans women were arrested for...
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Police Mugshots of Black Trans Women Arrested for Cross-Dressing or Female Impersonation in 1970s Philadelphia

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These police mugshots bear witness to a different time, when black trans women were arrested for ‘cross-dressing’ or ‘female impersonation’. They were taken between 1970 and 1979 in Philadelphia when police were the jurisdiction of Police Commissioner (and later Democrat Mayor of...
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May Day History The Haymarket Riot NOTE: I rerun this diary every year. In the US, May Day used to be the internationally-recognized...
1st May 2026
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May Day History The Haymarket Riot

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1st May 2026
NOTE: I rerun this diary every year. In the US, May Day used to be the internationally-recognized day of recognition and celebration for Labor and its struggles–at least until the Soviet Union ruined it with their idiotic military parades. But in honor of the true meaning of May...
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My favourite etymologies: OK It's an acronym, but what does it stand for?
13th Jan 2026
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My favourite etymologies: OK

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13th Jan 2026
It's an acronym, but what does it stand for?
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The Eager Beaver Space Book (1962) As I keep digging in my collection I have found Space Beavers! This was a promotional comic book...
17th Jan 2025
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The Eager Beaver Space Book (1962)

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17th Jan 2025
As I keep digging in my collection I have found Space Beavers! This was a promotional comic book from Cities Service gasoline. It probably was a give-away with purchase. It reflects the early 60s where the Mercury launches had taken place and we were looking ahead to the future....
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Best BigCo of 2009: Google This post as it looked in 2009. In one of ReadWriteWeb's longest-running traditions, every year we...
16th Dec 2009
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Best BigCo of 2009: Google

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16th Dec 2009
This post as it looked in 2009. In one of ReadWriteWeb's longest-running traditions, every year we review the top Internet companies and their impact over the past 12 months. Today we're announcing the 6th annual Best BigCo, a.k.a. big Internet company. Next week we'll announce...
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How Can We Accept Change? And When Should We Not?
2nd Feb 2026
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How Can We Accept Change?

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2nd Feb 2026
And When Should We Not?
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“To the Finland Station” Trump as a tool of history
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“To the Finland Station”

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7th Jan 2025
Trump as a tool of history
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Summary of changes for September 2023 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
2nd Oct 2023
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Summary of changes for September 2023

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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of September. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes Wiktopher, adapted Solresol, edited other conlangs. Niju,...
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Ranking medieval plague cures Number 4 may surprise you!
4th Jul 2026
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Ranking medieval plague cures

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4th Jul 2026
Number 4 may surprise you!
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What the Internet Was Like in 2001 Apple iTunes, the Rip Mix Burn advert, 2001; via YouTube (video embedded below). The year 2001 began...
5th Nov 2025
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What the Internet Was Like in 2001

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5th Nov 2025
Apple iTunes, the Rip Mix Burn advert, 2001; via YouTube (video embedded below). The year 2001 began with optimism — in January, Wikipedia debuted and Apple launched iTunes. But by year’s end the mood had shifted. The dot-com crash had drained Silicon Valley’s exuberance, Napster...
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVb: Antiochus III This is the second part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa)...
6th Apr 2024
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Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVb: Antiochus III

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6th Apr 2024
This is the second part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa) look at the context between the Roman military system based on the manipular legion and the Hellenistic military system structured around the Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the...
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Cometh the Hour.... Cometh ... well, who exactly?
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Cometh the Hour....

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4 days ago
Cometh ... well, who exactly?
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This May Be the Most Important Issue Yet Classical Wisdom Litterae: Ethics
1st Nov 2025
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This May Be the Most Important Issue Yet

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1st Nov 2025
Classical Wisdom Litterae: Ethics
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Summary of changes for January 2024 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
1st Feb 2024
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Summary of changes for January 2024

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1st Feb 2024
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of January. Summary Of Changes 100r.ca, added galley refit, updated lifelines, seamed box cushions, and moisture prevention underliner. Permacomputing, revamped the page. Flappy Bird,...
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Thursday discussion post It’s 2026.
1st Jan 2026
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Thursday discussion post

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1st Jan 2026
It’s 2026.
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Of fascination and addiction Knowledge of learning and deep knowledge
3rd Oct 2025
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Of fascination and addiction

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3rd Oct 2025
Knowledge of learning and deep knowledge
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How the Ancient Game of Chess Spread Across the World Virtually everyone is familiar with chess, even if they are not avid players themselves. The game is...
1st Mar 2026
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How the Ancient Game of Chess Spread Across the World

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1st Mar 2026
Virtually everyone is familiar with chess, even if they are not avid players themselves. The game is a recurring motif in many of our films, TV shows, stories, and other media. Every year, thousands of chess players compete for prestige at the international level to secure their...
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Summary of changes for January 2025 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
1st Feb 2025
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Summary of changes for January 2025

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1st Feb 2025
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of January. Summary Of Changes 100r.ca, added a new page: tote. Added Week 8 and Week 9 of the Victoria to Sitka logbook. Tote, released the project on itch.io. Grimgrains, added a new...
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1993: Mosaic Launches and the Web Becomes Open Source Original NCSA Mosaic Version 1.0 web browser home page; via NCSA. On 14 January 1993, Marc...
8th Dec 2021
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1993: Mosaic Launches and the Web Becomes Open Source

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8th Dec 2021
Original NCSA Mosaic Version 1.0 web browser home page; via NCSA. On 14 January 1993, Marc Andreessen put a call out on the WWW-Talk mailing list for people to test a new WWW browser in development. It was initially “hypertext only,” he wrote, “but will soon have multimedia...
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1995: MySQL Debuts and Web Databases Slowly Emerge The LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Perl/Python) would not be coined as an acronym for another...
15th Sep 2021
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1995: MySQL Debuts and Web Databases Slowly Emerge

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15th Sep 2021
The LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Perl/Python) would not be coined as an acronym for another few years, but all the pieces were in place by the end of 1995 — albeit at varying stages of maturity and adoption. Version 1.0 of Linux had been released in 1994 and commercial...
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Acquisition Talks: Two Suitors Emerge for ReadWriteWeb 'Intro to RWW' slide from a March 2008 presentation. I hadn’t seriously thought of selling...
3rd Apr 2024
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Acquisition Talks: Two Suitors Emerge for ReadWriteWeb

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'Intro to RWW' slide from a March 2008 presentation. I hadn’t seriously thought of selling ReadWriteWeb before 2008, but I knew I needed help to expand the business. Early in the new year Sean Ammirati put me in touch with Bob Evans, a senior executive at CMP Technology, a media...
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Europe on fire UK News Report #7: July 2026
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Europe on fire

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UK News Report #7: July 2026
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How China sees the world — and plans to respond Insights drawn directly from newly released internal-style guides written by China’s top...
7th Nov 2025
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How China sees the world — and plans to respond

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7th Nov 2025
Insights drawn directly from newly released internal-style guides written by China’s top policymakers.
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The open-stack library: a futuristic technology from the 18th century What we lost when we shifted knowledge organization to an algorithmic feed
8th Nov 2023
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The open-stack library: a futuristic technology from the 18th century

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What we lost when we shifted knowledge organization to an algorithmic feed
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leleuvia We've never been on a tiny island, a place you can run the width of under just a few minutes. We...
5th Sep 2018
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leleuvia

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5th Sep 2018
We've never been on a tiny island, a place you can run the width of under just a few minutes. We found a place like this, Leleuvia, an island in the Lomaitivi archipelago in Fiji. This island went through many hands over the years, it now belongs to a resort that too bears the...
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Summary of changes for December Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
1st Jan 2023
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Summary of changes for December

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1st Jan 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of December. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes 100r.ca, added a new page: electrical refit, fuel sensor,...
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Peter Pan goes to Ukraine Some people never grow up.
7th Dec 2022
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Peter Pan goes to Ukraine

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7th Dec 2022
Some people never grow up.
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The Health Risks of Travel in Early-Modern Britain As I start to make some progress on my new research project on travel, health and risk I am turning...
17th Feb 2023
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The Health Risks of Travel in Early-Modern Britain

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17th Feb 2023
As I start to make some progress on my new research project on travel, health and risk I am turning my attention to the sorts of things that early modern travellers were fearful of. As a bit of a nervous traveller myself, it’s quite comforting to know that there is actually a...
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Collections: The Philosophy of Liberty – On Liberalism It is once again the week of July 4th and so, as is customary here, I am going to use this week’s...
5th Jul 2024
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Collections: The Philosophy of Liberty – On Liberalism

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5th Jul 2024
It is once again the week of July 4th and so, as is customary here, I am going to use this week’s post to talk about the United States or more correctly this week about the political philosophy the United States was founded on: liberalism. Now an immediate clarification is...
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Perspectives and outcomes of Africa's age of exploration Nearly a century after the Kushite envoys of Queen Amanirenas visited the court of Augustus in...
3rd Aug 2025
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Perspectives and outcomes of Africa's age of exploration

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Nearly a century after the Kushite envoys of Queen Amanirenas visited the court of Augustus in 22-20BC, a pair of Roman centurions was sent on a reconnaissance mission to Kush in 61-63 CE to gather intelligence for a planned campaign against the kingdom by the Emperor Nero.
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Electra: Powerful or Pathetic? Which Playwright did it better?
1st Jul 2024
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Electra: Powerful or Pathetic?

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Which Playwright did it better?
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No More Heroes. Pity the nation that needs someone else's.
6th Nov 2024
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No More Heroes.

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6th Nov 2024
Pity the nation that needs someone else's.
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The Euro-American Split (I): Dread Possibility THERE ARE DECADES WHEN possibility is constrained in a narrow frame. The terrain has been surveyed,...
21st Feb 2025
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The Euro-American Split (I): Dread Possibility

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THERE ARE DECADES WHEN possibility is constrained in a narrow frame. The terrain has been surveyed, boundaries have been laid, and rules have been established. In such an age there is still room for high drama: The decisive round of a boxing match draws the eye despite the...
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a brief note on Madagascar's position in African history plus, early industrialization in the Merina kingdom.
5th Aug 2023
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a brief note on Madagascar's position in African history

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5th Aug 2023
plus, early industrialization in the Merina kingdom.
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To all the newspapers I loved The decline and fall of the print media.
2nd Feb 2024
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To all the newspapers I loved

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2nd Feb 2024
The decline and fall of the print media.
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A different game On football’s extreme commercialization
1st Jun 2026
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A different game

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1st Jun 2026
On football’s extreme commercialization
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All About the Telescope (1980) Klushantsev, Pavel. Illustrated by Voishvillo, E., B. Kalaushin, and B. Starodubtsev. All About the...
yesterday
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All About the Telescope (1980)

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Klushantsev, Pavel. Illustrated by Voishvillo, E., B. Kalaushin, and B. Starodubtsev. All About the Telescope. Translated by Jan Butler. Moscow: Progress Publishers. (70 p.) 1980 This book was a translation of the 1972 Russian book: Klushantsev, Pavel. Illustrated by Voishvillo,...
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Why medieval artists drew ancient Romans in medieval clothes Or, how the French stole Julius Caesar in 1200 AD
30th Mar 2023
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Why medieval artists drew ancient Romans in medieval clothes

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Or, how the French stole Julius Caesar in 1200 AD
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Audiobooks Deep Dive: Latest Statistics and Trends In last week’s article, I analyzed the rise of audio formats in comparison to the decline in print...
2nd Oct 2019
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Audiobooks Deep Dive: Latest Statistics and Trends

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2nd Oct 2019
In last week’s article, I analyzed the rise of audio formats in comparison to the decline in print formats. Specifically: podcasts and audiobooks are on a bull run in the content market, whereas blogs, print books and ebooks continue their bearish tendencies. In the following two...
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New York City In Color – Garry Winogrand’s Street Shots “I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed” – Gary Winogrand   In Garry...
1st Mar 2024
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New York City In Color – Garry Winogrand’s Street Shots

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1st Mar 2024
“I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed” – Gary Winogrand   In Garry Winogrand: Winogrand Color we look at some of the New York-born photographer’s 45,000 early colour street photographs in 1950s and 1960s America.   In 1970 and Winogrand visited the...
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Spicy Noodles: Dave Winer and the Web 2.0 Workgroup Celebrating the formation of the Web 2.0 Workgroup at Jing Jing, Palo Alto. From left to right: Gabe...
4th Dec 2023
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Spicy Noodles: Dave Winer and the Web 2.0 Workgroup

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4th Dec 2023
Celebrating the formation of the Web 2.0 Workgroup at Jing Jing, Palo Alto. From left to right: Gabe Rivera, Dave Winer, me, Mike Arrington, Fred Oliveira; photo by Dave Winer. During my stay at the TechCrunch ranch, Mike Arrington, Fred Oliveira and I had been discussing how to...
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Top Washington strategist says U.S. bases in Asia are “all risk and little reward” Is she the canary in the coal mine
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Top Washington strategist says U.S. bases in Asia are “all risk and little reward”

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Is she the canary in the coal mine
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When The Music's Over ... Turn out the lights.
6th Mar 2024
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When The Music's Over ...

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6th Mar 2024
Turn out the lights.
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The Day the Émigrés Struck Back : Remembering May Day 2006 In 2006, students around the United States engaged in spontaneous walkouts protesting the repression...
5th Feb 2025
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The Day the Émigrés Struck Back : Remembering May Day 2006

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5th Feb 2025
In 2006, students around the United States engaged in spontaneous walkouts protesting the repression of undocumented people, culminating on May Day in the first great general strike to take place in the US in the 21st century. Today, as students are once again staging walkouts...
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True Comics, December 1948. (“Rocket Trip to the Moon” ) Something old about a trip to the Moon. Celebrating trying another trip to the Moon here is a...
10th Apr 2026
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True Comics, December 1948. (“Rocket Trip to the Moon” )

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10th Apr 2026
Something old about a trip to the Moon. Celebrating trying another trip to the Moon here is a non-fiction story from 1948. Stuck in an obscure comic book it tells the story of spaceflight to come. True Comics. No. 80, December 1948. (“Rocket Trip to the Moon” p. 10-15.) Chicago:...
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William Steig’s Illustrations for Wilhelm Reich’s Listen, Little Man!, 1945 “They call you ‘Little Man’, ‘Common Man’; they say a new era has begun, the ‘Era of the Common...
1st Feb 2026
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William Steig’s Illustrations for Wilhelm Reich’s Listen, Little Man!, 1945

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1st Feb 2026
“They call you ‘Little Man’, ‘Common Man’; they say a new era has begun, the ‘Era of the Common Man’. It isn’t you who says so, Little Man. It is they, the Vice Presidents of great nations, promoted labor leaders, repentant sons of bourgeois families, statesmen and philosophers....
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‘The Indefatigable Asa Briggs’ by Adam Sisman review ‘The Indefatigable Asa Briggs’ by Adam Sisman review JamesHoare Wed, 10/01/2025 - 08:00
1st Oct 2025
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‘The Indefatigable Asa Briggs’ by Adam Sisman review

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‘The Indefatigable Asa Briggs’ by Adam Sisman review JamesHoare Wed, 10/01/2025 - 08:00
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Summary of changes for April 2024 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
2nd May 2024
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Summary of changes for April 2024

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2nd May 2024
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of April. Summary Of Changes 100r.ca, added Twilight, updated our notes on chainplates, wheel to tiller conversion, cabin lights standing rigging replacement, Princess Louisa Inlet(added...
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Quick's Flying Saucers and Rocket Ships (1953) A couple of rare (ish) punch-out books from 1953. I had tried to find copies for a while but finally...
1st Aug 2026
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Quick's Flying Saucers and Rocket Ships (1953)

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1st Aug 2026
A couple of rare (ish) punch-out books from 1953. I had tried to find copies for a while but finally it cam together. I really like the space graphics and the space helmet on the back. I also want my own "Robot Man" mask to wear. Lots of cool space toys. Jones, Jim and Virdone,...
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Sophocles' Swansong Oedipus at Colonus
4th Aug 2023
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Sophocles' Swansong

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4th Aug 2023
Oedipus at Colonus
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Catharsis: "Hope against Hope" : A New Full-Length Record from an Uncompromising Hardcore Band It has been a long time now since our last music release—but desperate times call for desperate...
1st Aug 2025
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Catharsis: "Hope against Hope" : A New Full-Length Record from an Uncompromising Hardcore Band

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1st Aug 2025
It has been a long time now since our last music release—but desperate times call for desperate measures. Taking up arms against a wave of authoritarianism and despair, North Carolina’s premier hardcore band, Catharsis, has recorded a new full-length album, “Hope Against Hope.”...
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The Syrian Civil War Resumes : Perspectives on the Conflict from Western and Northeastern Syria The Syrian civil war has remained largely frozen since 2020, owing to a precarious balance of power...
2nd Dec 2024
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The Syrian Civil War Resumes : Perspectives on the Conflict from Western and Northeastern Syria

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2nd Dec 2024
The Syrian civil war has remained largely frozen since 2020, owing to a precarious balance of power between various factions with various degrees of support from Russia, Turkey, Iran, and the United States. Over the past few days, however, taking advantage of the ways that Iran...
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Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part IVb: Working Days This is the continuation – the first of several – of the fourth part of our series looking at the...
5th Sep 2025
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Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part IVb: Working Days

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5th Sep 2025
This is the continuation – the first of several – of the fourth part of our series looking at the lives of pre-modern peasant farmers – a majority of all of the humans who have ever lived. Last time we discussed the survival requirements (in food and textiles) of a peasant...
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Difficulties with Fanon Observations stimulated by Adam Shatz’s Rebel’s Clinic
3rd Jun 2025
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Difficulties with Fanon

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3rd Jun 2025
Observations stimulated by Adam Shatz’s Rebel’s Clinic
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The Revolt of the Outer Party. Meanwhile, Everyman can get stuffed.
3rd Apr 2024
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The Revolt of the Outer Party.

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3rd Apr 2024
Meanwhile, Everyman can get stuffed.
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The indigenous versus foreign origins of West Africa’s pre-colonial architecture. Architecture is an aspect of culture that mediates between man and his environment, and it has been...
6th Jul 2025
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The indigenous versus foreign origins of West Africa’s pre-colonial architecture.

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6th Jul 2025
Architecture is an aspect of culture that mediates between man and his environment, and it has been one of the first of the arts to adopt new materials and techniques.
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Immigration and crime: Denmark Are immigrants overrepresented in crime? If so, which immigrants? And why?
3rd Aug 2024
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Immigration and crime: Denmark

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3rd Aug 2024
Are immigrants overrepresented in crime? If so, which immigrants? And why?
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David Bowie’s Early Websites, 1995–1997: Outside to Earthling David Bowie's first website, 1995; via leontakesusoutside.com. As the internet became more...
2nd Apr 2025
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David Bowie’s Early Websites, 1995–1997: Outside to Earthling

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2nd Apr 2025
David Bowie's first website, 1995; via leontakesusoutside.com. As the internet became more interactive over 1995, it became a more attractive place for musicians to set up a web presence. David Bowie was one of the first to do this. On August 6, 1995, the domain...
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A history of the Majeerteen Sultanate: 1700-1927. Maritime trade and diplomacy in the northern Horn of Africa.
4th Jun 2023
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A history of the Majeerteen Sultanate: 1700-1927.

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4th Jun 2023
Maritime trade and diplomacy in the northern Horn of Africa.
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The case for bundling substacks No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money
3rd Mar 2026
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The case for bundling substacks

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3rd Mar 2026
No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money
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Summary of changes for November 2023 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
1st Dec 2023
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Summary of changes for November 2023

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1st Dec 2023
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of November. Summary Of Changes Wiktopher, drew some new art(Mastodon), finalized a few translations(Mastodon), and released it the project on Itchio! Thousand Rooms, translated the...
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton: The Woman Who Demanded Equality Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a revolutionary figure in her day, speaking out about women’s rights,...
1st Feb 2026
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton: The Woman Who Demanded Equality

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1st Feb 2026
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a revolutionary figure in her day, speaking out about women’s rights, especially voting rights for women. Alongside fellow suffragist Susan B. Anthony, she worked tirelessly to change the way society treated women. A writer, philosopher, women’s rights...
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Star Trek’s Space Babes: Vintage Photos of the Women Who Captivated 1960s Audiences When Star Trek premiered in 1966, it introduced audiences to a vision of the future filled with...
3rd Sep 2026
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Star Trek’s Space Babes: Vintage Photos of the Women Who Captivated 1960s Audiences

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3rd Sep 2026
When Star Trek premiered in 1966, it introduced audiences to a vision of the future filled with advanced technology, distant worlds, and a diverse crew working together aboard the USS Enterprise. Alongside its groundbreaking ideas about space exploration and human progress, the...
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Sunday Thread + Mailbag Ask your questions below.
1st Feb 2026
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Sunday Thread + Mailbag

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1st Feb 2026
Ask your questions below.
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1994: How Perl Became the Foundation of Yahoo In January 1994, two Stanford University graduate students — Jerry Yang and David Filo — created a...
10th Aug 2021
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1994: How Perl Became the Foundation of Yahoo

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10th Aug 2021
In January 1994, two Stanford University graduate students — Jerry Yang and David Filo — created a web directory named “Jerry and David’s Guide to the World Wide Web.” It went by various other names in early 1994 (such as “Hierarchical Hotlist” and “Jerry & Dave’s Guide to WWW”),...
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Medieval Muslims loved their cats so much Cat shelters, cat shoes, cat jewellery, and more from the Islamic Middle Ages
2nd Apr 2023
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Medieval Muslims loved their cats so much

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2nd Apr 2023
Cat shelters, cat shoes, cat jewellery, and more from the Islamic Middle Ages
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Packing the Essentials!: Preparing to Travel in the 18th Century. Now that Covid restrictions have finally been lifted, and summer is at least theoretically here –...
8th Jun 2022
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Packing the Essentials!: Preparing to Travel in the 18th Century.

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8th Jun 2022
Now that Covid restrictions have finally been lifted, and summer is at least theoretically here – it’s raining outside as I write! – many people are returning to travel and undertaking the holidays that have had to be postponed over the past couple of years. The pandemic aside,...
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Isaac Asimov’s Books of Dirty Limericks Isaac Asimov (c. January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) is remembered for his prolific science fiction...
1st May 2024
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Isaac Asimov’s Books of Dirty Limericks

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1st May 2024
Isaac Asimov (c. January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) is remembered for his prolific science fiction writing, impressive ‘lamb chops’  – of which he said: “They became a permanent feature of my face, and it is now difficult to believe early photographs that show me without sideburns”...
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Summary of changes for November 2024 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
30th Nov 2024
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Summary of changes for November 2024

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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of November. Summary Of Changes 100r.ca, added an article named A Shining Place Built Upon The Sand, and Week 6 to the Victoria to Sitka Logbook. Rabbit Waves, added a page on Morse Code...
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Last Chance: The Essential Greeks Starting Tomorrow
1st Oct 2023
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Last Chance: The Essential Greeks

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1st Oct 2023
Starting Tomorrow
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African Revolutions and External Influences during the Long Nineteenth Century In the opening decades of the 19th century, Africa witnessed the emergence of new economic and...
3rd May 2026
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African Revolutions and External Influences during the Long Nineteenth Century

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3rd May 2026
In the opening decades of the 19th century, Africa witnessed the emergence of new economic and political dynamics that intersected with, and were in some areas the outcome of, external influences.
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The Age of Books and the Age of Brainrot A semi-optimistic take on the future of reading and thinking
2nd Oct 2025
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The Age of Books and the Age of Brainrot

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A semi-optimistic take on the future of reading and thinking
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Academia’s Abstraction Failure One of the greatest obstacles to humanity using abstract thought to help on its biggest issues is...
4th Jan 2026
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Academia’s Abstraction Failure

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4th Jan 2026
One of the greatest obstacles to humanity using abstract thought to help on its biggest issues is this: our main professional specialists in abstract though applied to big issues are academics, and they refuse to think abstractly about how they allocate resources.
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1999: Netscape’s Fall and the Rise of the Mozilla Browser At the beginning of 1999, one company had all the momentum on the Web: Microsoft. While Netscape was...
13th Oct 2021
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1999: Netscape’s Fall and the Rise of the Mozilla Browser

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13th Oct 2021
At the beginning of 1999, one company had all the momentum on the Web: Microsoft. While Netscape was adjusting to corporate life with new owner AOL and trying to figure out its browser strategy, Microsoft was preparing to release version 5 of its browser, Internet Explorer. Like...
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The Sirens' Song Can You Resist?
2nd Jan 2026
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The Sirens' Song

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2nd Jan 2026
Can You Resist?
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Creams, Clothes and Cases: The material culture of pre-modern travel. I am currently on study leave, getting on with research for my new project on the history of travel...
1st Feb 2024
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Creams, Clothes and Cases: The material culture of pre-modern travel.

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1st Feb 2024
I am currently on study leave, getting on with research for my new project on the history of travel preparations. One thing that I’m particularly interested in is the material culture of travel, and what sorts of things were available for travellers as they got ready for their...
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Fireside Friday, February 2, 2024 (On City Building Games) Fireside this week! I have just finished up a draft of a chapter (to be in one of those...
2nd Feb 2024
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Fireside Friday, February 2, 2024 (On City Building Games)

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2nd Feb 2024
Fireside this week! I have just finished up a draft of a chapter (to be in one of those multi-multi-author companion volumes) on how video games (particularly more abstract simulation games) depict the ancient world. Writing that chapter led me to reengage with ancient city...
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How did medieval travellers communicate in foreign lands? Studies from the east and west
5th Feb 2026
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How did medieval travellers communicate in foreign lands?

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5th Feb 2026
Studies from the east and west
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The order of inequality Review of Tongdong Bai’s “Against political equality: The Confucian case"
12th Apr 2024
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The order of inequality

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12th Apr 2024
Review of Tongdong Bai’s “Against political equality: The Confucian case"
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7 Famous Dutch Artists Who Achieved Greatness The Netherlands has produced some of the most celebrated painters in history, from the luminous...
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7 Famous Dutch Artists Who Achieved Greatness

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The Netherlands has produced some of the most celebrated painters in history, from the luminous scenes of Vermeer to the powerful portraits of Rembrandt and the bold colors of Van Gogh. Here are seven Dutch artists whose work has achieved global acclaim and continues to captivate...
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Futarchy's Minor Flaw In my 1999 article “Decision Markets” (IEEE Intelligent Systems 14(3):16-19, May/June), I explained...
2nd Oct 2025
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Futarchy's Minor Flaw

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In my 1999 article “Decision Markets” (IEEE Intelligent Systems 14(3):16-19, May/June), I explained how decision-conditional market estimates could be used to advise decisions, a concept I soon called “
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Summary of changes for September 2024 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
1st Oct 2024
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Summary of changes for September 2024

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1st Oct 2024
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of September. Summary Of Changes 100r.ca, added a new page: Victoria to Sitka logbook. M291, added support for Cyrillic glyphs. Fractran, released what might be the most in-depth...
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Telling Lies: Bowie and Online Music Distribution in 1996 The CD version of David Bowie's online single, 'Telling Lies', 1996; via kupindo.com. In an...
7th May 2025
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Telling Lies: Bowie and Online Music Distribution in 1996

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7th May 2025
The CD version of David Bowie's online single, 'Telling Lies', 1996; via kupindo.com. In an interview featured in the 1998 book “The Interactive Music Handbook,” Larry Rosen — CEO of an online music services company called N2K — provided his theory on how the internet would...
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Frank Film: Watch the Oscar-Winning Animation That Peers Inside Your Head, 1973 Frank Film is a 1973 American animated short by husband-and-wife animators Caroline and Frank...
1st Feb 2024
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Frank Film: Watch the Oscar-Winning Animation That Peers Inside Your Head, 1973

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1st Feb 2024
Frank Film is a 1973 American animated short by husband-and-wife animators Caroline and Frank Mouris. The film won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film and was inducted into the National Film Registry in 1996. It’s an autobiographical narrative – Mouris narrates his path...
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The Obscene Art of Wallace Smith For The Banned Book Fantazius Mallare, 1922 “A memory of sanity gives diverting outline to the shadows in me. I am not a maniac like the night....
1st Dec 2025
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The Obscene Art of Wallace Smith For The Banned Book Fantazius Mallare, 1922

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1st Dec 2025
“A memory of sanity gives diverting outline to the shadows in me. I am not a maniac like the night. My mind closes like darkness over the world but I enjoy myself walking amid insane houses, staring at windows that look like drunken octagons, observing lamp posts that simper with...
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Respect The Social Wild While most foragers had great respect for nature, our farmer-era ancestors had less resepct.
3rd Mar 2025
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Respect The Social Wild

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3rd Mar 2025
While most foragers had great respect for nature, our farmer-era ancestors had less resepct.
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How many are criminals? Probably more than you think...
11th Aug 2025
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How many are criminals?

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11th Aug 2025
Probably more than you think...
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Wigs: Selling Hair in 1980s London “If your hair gone with the wind?” – sign in a wig shop, Stepney, Tower Hamlets, London   People...
2nd Sep 2026
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Wigs: Selling Hair in 1980s London

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2nd Sep 2026
“If your hair gone with the wind?” – sign in a wig shop, Stepney, Tower Hamlets, London   People were keen to fix their hair in the 1980s. Before the buzzcut became the norm for men with a thinning thatch and hair extensions for women became popular, Peter Marshall spotted high...
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Simulating History with ChatGPT The Case for LLMs as Hallucination Engines
12th Sep 2023
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Simulating History with ChatGPT

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12th Sep 2023
The Case for LLMs as Hallucination Engines
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Being Non-Transactional. Beyond "What's in it for me?"
2nd Apr 2025
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Being Non-Transactional.

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2nd Apr 2025
Beyond "What's in it for me?"
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One Year On: 1-Year Anniversary of ReadWriteWeb This post as it looked in 2004. Here goes another self-referencing post about blogging. A couple of...
22nd Apr 2004
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One Year On: 1-Year Anniversary of ReadWriteWeb

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22nd Apr 2004
This post as it looked in 2004. Here goes another self-referencing post about blogging. A couple of days ago I clocked up 1 year on this weblog, having started Read/Write Web on 20 April 2003, with an introductory essay called (of course) The Read/Write Web. Looking back on the...
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My new git utility `what-changed-twice` needs a new name As I have , my typical workflow is to go along commiting stuff that might or might not make sense,...
21st Sep 2025
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My new git utility `what-changed-twice` needs a new name

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21st Sep 2025
As I have , my typical workflow is to go along commiting stuff that might or might not make sense, then clean it all up at the end, doing multiple passes with and to get related changes into the same commit, and then to order the commits in a sensible way. Yesterday I built a...
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Starting From Zero. Finlandisation 2,0?
1st Oct 2025
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Starting From Zero.

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1st Oct 2025
Finlandisation 2,0?
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China ramps up South Asia trade ties From mango shipments to ministerial talks, Beijing is dialing up its regional trade game with Sri...
2nd Jun 2025
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China ramps up South Asia trade ties

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2nd Jun 2025
From mango shipments to ministerial talks, Beijing is dialing up its regional trade game with Sri Lanka and Bangladesh
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What did they write about? : An intellectual history of Timbuktu ca. 1450-1900. No single body of primary sources in the literary heritage of West Africa has attracted as much...
6th Apr 2025
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What did they write about? : An intellectual history of Timbuktu ca. 1450-1900.

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6th Apr 2025
No single body of primary sources in the literary heritage of West Africa has attracted as much attention and attained as much celebrity as the fabled manuscripts of Timbuktu.
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Summary of changes for November Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
1st Dec 2021
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Summary of changes for November

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1st Dec 2021
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of November. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes Donsol, designed a donsol turnip. Uxn, wrote a file browser...
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My Interview With Tim Berners-Lee, June 2009 Tim Berners-Lee and Richard MacManus, June 2009. During my recent trip to Boston, I had the...
8th Jul 2009
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My Interview With Tim Berners-Lee, June 2009

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8th Jul 2009
Tim Berners-Lee and Richard MacManus, June 2009. During my recent trip to Boston, I had the opportunity to visit MIT. At the end of a long day of meetings with various MIT tech masterminds, I made my way to the funny shaped building where the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and...
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Working offgrid efficiently Our traveling studio has operated off-the-grid for 4 1/2 years. For the first 3 years we tested the...
13th Oct 2020
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Working offgrid efficiently

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13th Oct 2020
Our traveling studio has operated off-the-grid for 4 1/2 years. For the first 3 years we tested the limits of our space, and at first, it was difficult to create new things, as we had to make time to learn how to solve underlying problems. Our boat was not just an office, it was...
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Do you want to be a synonym? I had a dinner with a friend tonight and we spoke of how the new era which has just begun makes lots...
2nd Apr 2025
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Do you want to be a synonym?

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2nd Apr 2025
I had a dinner with a friend tonight and we spoke of how the new era which has just begun makes lots of our knowledge, or the ways of thinking, about international relations, economic policies, poverty and wealth etc.
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Finding Your Beard Style in the 19th Century In the previous post I noted the variety of facial hair styles that were worn by men in the...
12th Mar 2021
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Finding Your Beard Style in the 19th Century

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12th Mar 2021
In the previous post I noted the variety of facial hair styles that were worn by men in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, depending on factors including status, location and age. Rather than each age having one particular style of facial hair that was ubiquitous, the...
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“There is a great disorder under the heaven. The situation is excellent” A review of Westad and Chen, The Great Transformation: China’s Road from Revolution to Reform
8th Mar 2026
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“There is a great disorder under the heaven. The situation is excellent”

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8th Mar 2026
A review of Westad and Chen, The Great Transformation: China’s Road from Revolution to Reform
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Typhoons and mold For every traveling sailor, comes a time when the boat has to stay alone in a foreign country. For...
28th Feb 2020
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Typhoons and mold

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28th Feb 2020
For every traveling sailor, comes a time when the boat has to stay alone in a foreign country. For us, this happened this year in Japan. We'd never left Pino alone before, never for more than a week. We were apprehensive at first, but decided it would be a good learning...
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Sudan, 1898 From the archives
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Sudan, 1898

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From the archives
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Vintage Color Photos Capture New York City Streets and Daily Life in 1980 New York City in 1980 had a look that can be surprisingly difficult to picture today. The buildings...
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Vintage Color Photos Capture New York City Streets and Daily Life in 1980

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New York City in 1980 had a look that can be surprisingly difficult to picture today. The buildings are familiar, the streets are recognizable, and the crowds move with the same hurried energy, yet the details belong unmistakably to another time. Cars from another generation line...
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2026 CHM Awards Ceremony CHM honored five new Fellows and the inaugural Silicon Valley Laureate at a gala celebration that...
1st May 2026
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2026 CHM Awards Ceremony

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1st May 2026
CHM honored five new Fellows and the inaugural Silicon Valley Laureate at a gala celebration that highlighted the teamwork and collaboration behind lasting success. The post 2026 CHM Awards Ceremony appeared first on CHM.
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Repression and Resistance in Russia : An Overview Across three decades, Russia has been at the forefront of the worldwide descent into...
9th Sep 2026
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Repression and Resistance in Russia : An Overview

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9th Sep 2026
Across three decades, Russia has been at the forefront of the worldwide descent into authoritarianism. Vladimir Putin’s government has suppressed opposition in ways that aspiring autocrats like Donald Trump are still striving to emulate. Yet despite widespread repression, there...
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The Pax Silica Con The US's "Pax Silica" sells itself as a wall against China, when it's really a cage to keep...
4th Jun 2026
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The Pax Silica Con

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4th Jun 2026
The US's "Pax Silica" sells itself as a wall against China, when it's really a cage to keep America's "partners" in - dependent on American tech, and unable to build their own.
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